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Greetings once more - your favourite supplemental GAD fest is back again, taunting you with prizes you probably won't win like a carrot in front of a donkey. If you didn't love it, you wouldn't keep coming back.
Something a little different this time, in that this competition actually requires you to think a little rather than splatter your 'artistic' daubings on a banner :) What we'd like you to do is come up with some ways in which Special Reserve could promote themselves effectively. Bear in mind we haven't exactly got the backing of the Sultan of Brunei, we'd like you to drop us a few ideas on how best to get across the fact that Special Reserve are cheap, reliable and have a wide product range.
This could be improvements to ways we currently run things, new product ranges you think would appeal to our customers (bear in mind we currently sell rather a lot of stuff - see left sidestrip), new exciting ways to advertise our existing offers or just any ideas that have been floating round your head. Is there some range of products you just can't get hold of that would be perfect for us to sell? Let us know!
Post your ideas in this thread and we'll announce a winner at around the end of February, let's say the 27th. The best suggestions will win whatever prizes we give them, most probably yer standard £25/£50 GAD prize.
(And before anyone brings it up, yes we do think about this stuff ourselves, but we wanted to see what you lot think as well. So button it!)
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And the winner is..... phi11ip, for the following suggestion:
"Here's an idea, and if carried out correctly could be very beneficial. I've got a nice example too just to prove to you just how beneficial it is. www.staghosting.com was a free hosting service set up last year with the intention of boosting the ratings of a a few sites belonging to a company, one of these sites was www.actiondays.co.uk. Basically, unlike your free hosting, this hosting only offered hosting to domain names, you get 200MB disk space and 4 Gig bandwidth a month, you can upload from any connection unlike Freeola. So basically the company which has nothing to do with hosting has just set up a hosting site, sounds stupid doesn't it? What the requirements of this free hosting are though is that you must display a couple of small text links on your site, on mine you can see them on the links section on the side of the page. Google counts each link as a 'vote' and increases the pagerank of the site in question meaning that it shows up higher in searches, I see you've got 'cheap games' pretty much sorted but you don't show up anywhere when 'PS2 games' is typed in. If people were to display these text links on their sites it would soon make you appear high up on the search results. www.actiondays.co.uk was absolutely nowhere when it started, it had a low pagerank and didn't appear on searches. Have a look now though and you'll see that searching for 'corporate event' on Google.com returns the site as number 2 out of 6,500,000. Think about it. You've already got the hosting capabilities, all it would require is a server and someone to monitor the sites every now and then to make sure the links are there."
Congratulations and well done to everyone who entered.
Something a little different this time, in that this competition actually requires you to think a little rather than splatter your 'artistic' daubings on a banner :) What we'd like you to do is come up with some ways in which Special Reserve could promote themselves effectively. Bear in mind we haven't exactly got the backing of the Sultan of Brunei, we'd like you to drop us a few ideas on how best to get across the fact that Special Reserve are cheap, reliable and have a wide product range.
This could be improvements to ways we currently run things, new product ranges you think would appeal to our customers (bear in mind we currently sell rather a lot of stuff - see left sidestrip), new exciting ways to advertise our existing offers or just any ideas that have been floating round your head. Is there some range of products you just can't get hold of that would be perfect for us to sell? Let us know!
Post your ideas in this thread and we'll announce a winner at around the end of February, let's say the 27th. The best suggestions will win whatever prizes we give them, most probably yer standard £25/£50 GAD prize.
(And before anyone brings it up, yes we do think about this stuff ourselves, but we wanted to see what you lot think as well. So button it!)
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And the winner is..... phi11ip, for the following suggestion:
"Here's an idea, and if carried out correctly could be very beneficial. I've got a nice example too just to prove to you just how beneficial it is. www.staghosting.com was a free hosting service set up last year with the intention of boosting the ratings of a a few sites belonging to a company, one of these sites was www.actiondays.co.uk. Basically, unlike your free hosting, this hosting only offered hosting to domain names, you get 200MB disk space and 4 Gig bandwidth a month, you can upload from any connection unlike Freeola. So basically the company which has nothing to do with hosting has just set up a hosting site, sounds stupid doesn't it? What the requirements of this free hosting are though is that you must display a couple of small text links on your site, on mine you can see them on the links section on the side of the page. Google counts each link as a 'vote' and increases the pagerank of the site in question meaning that it shows up higher in searches, I see you've got 'cheap games' pretty much sorted but you don't show up anywhere when 'PS2 games' is typed in. If people were to display these text links on their sites it would soon make you appear high up on the search results. www.actiondays.co.uk was absolutely nowhere when it started, it had a low pagerank and didn't appear on searches. Have a look now though and you'll see that searching for 'corporate event' on Google.com returns the site as number 2 out of 6,500,000. Think about it. You've already got the hosting capabilities, all it would require is a server and someone to monitor the sites every now and then to make sure the links are there."
Congratulations and well done to everyone who entered.
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*what about becoming a sponsored link on the uk google.
*become a kind of partner to another site.
*keep on giving all the pages this new look. image sells...
*(in the same vein- declutter your pages. just this opinion i get when i compare this site with others)
*change your logo from a strange red blob to a more high tec looking sign.
i dont expect to win but this thread/competition is about people throwing about ideas.
*become a kind of partner to another site.
*keep on giving all the pages this new look. image sells...
*(in the same vein- declutter your pages. just this opinion i get when i compare this site with others)
*change your logo from a strange red blob to a more high tec looking sign.
i dont expect to win but this thread/competition is about people throwing about ideas.
Ah, i did not know.
It was a good idea though. You have to give me some credit. :D
It was a good idea though. You have to give me some credit. :D
MAXX PCs are made by us. They're a Special Reserve PC.
Try opening shops in Wales
Something to do with turnips.
And Budda.
And Budda.
Rickoss wrote:
> Skinzone Webmaster wrote:
> How about a PM system for the sr forums, most forums have one,
> in-fact
> this is the only one I know without one. I know you would say that
> users would pm admins/staff asking about GAD stuff but you could
> always configure it so that users are not allowed to pm admins/staff
>
> Sorry... but a) That wouldn't get SR any more customers/money and b)
> it's a pretty much pointless idea, seeing as they're not needed.
>
> The forums are fine as they are, I think SR are wanting ideas
> regarding advertising etc.
ahh ok I'll have to put my thinking cap on then :)
> Skinzone Webmaster wrote:
> How about a PM system for the sr forums, most forums have one,
> in-fact
> this is the only one I know without one. I know you would say that
> users would pm admins/staff asking about GAD stuff but you could
> always configure it so that users are not allowed to pm admins/staff
>
> Sorry... but a) That wouldn't get SR any more customers/money and b)
> it's a pretty much pointless idea, seeing as they're not needed.
>
> The forums are fine as they are, I think SR are wanting ideas
> regarding advertising etc.
ahh ok I'll have to put my thinking cap on then :)
As you sell DVD players how about you do some deals with them. Sell your DVD players for how ever much they are and when you buy 5 DVD's they can select a game of the there choice.
Skinzone Webmaster wrote:
> How about a PM system for the sr forums, most forums have one, in-fact
> this is the only one I know without one. I know you would say that
> users would pm admins/staff asking about GAD stuff but you could
> always configure it so that users are not allowed to pm admins/staff
Sorry... but a) That wouldn't get SR any more customers/money and b) it's a pretty much pointless idea, seeing as they're not needed.
The forums are fine as they are, I think SR are wanting ideas regarding advertising etc.
> How about a PM system for the sr forums, most forums have one, in-fact
> this is the only one I know without one. I know you would say that
> users would pm admins/staff asking about GAD stuff but you could
> always configure it so that users are not allowed to pm admins/staff
Sorry... but a) That wouldn't get SR any more customers/money and b) it's a pretty much pointless idea, seeing as they're not needed.
The forums are fine as they are, I think SR are wanting ideas regarding advertising etc.
aren't maxx pc's owned by sr?
mikelar wrote:
> I take it your talking about the MAXX PCs SR sell....
No, im saying they should make their own. Did you even read it.
MAXX are already a company. SR just sell them.
> I take it your talking about the MAXX PCs SR sell....
No, im saying they should make their own. Did you even read it.
MAXX are already a company. SR just sell them.
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